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OUR INAUGURAL 2011-12 SEASON
May 10 - 12
SARAH AFTER HOURS
A weekend celebration of the Sarah Lawrence College Theatre Program
Made possible by the generous support of Berelle Samuel Theatre Fund
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THE SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE THEATRE PROGRAM
Director: Christine Farrell
Director, Graduate Program: Dan Hurlin
Administrator: Dave McRee
Creative Director: Robert Lyons
Producer: Ruth Moe
Associate Producer: Greta Minsky
Technical Director: Rob Gould
Master Electrician: Rebecca Sealander
Technical Assistant: Marshall Miller
Program Coordinator: Peggy McGrath
Theatre Outreach Co-Director: Shirley Kaplan
Theatre Outreach Co-Director: Allen Lang
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March 9 - 25
THE DEEPEST PLAY EVER: THE CATHARSIS OF PATHOS
By Geoffrey Decas O'Donnell
Music by Michael Wells
Directed by Lee Sunday Evans and Jordan Seavey
Produced by CollaborationTown
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Before Mother Courage there was Mother LaMadre. In THE DEEPEST PLAY EVER, an unrivaled masterpiece of modern dramatic writing, our antiheroine Mother LaMadre and her rag-tag crew drag their wagon through the Fifth World War and the post-post-apocalyptic wasteland that is New Europe. Together they must navigate all the pitfalls (and rewards) of the dramatic art of drama to find the few remaining books the art-abolishing Evil Empire have yet to destroy and maybe, just maybe, find a way to replace violence with art. If the zombies don't eat them first. Don’t understand? You never will, human.
Featuring: Jordan Barbour, Carly Cioffi, Nick Choksi, John Halbach, Boo Killebrew, Geoffrey Decas O’Donnell, Chinasa Ogbuagu, Phillip Taratula, Emily Walton
and TJ Witham
Set, Props, and Puppets: Deb O
Costumes: Nikki Moody
Lighting: Nick Houfek
Sound: Brandon Wolcott
Music Direction: Michael Wells
Associate Music Direction: Nicholas Williams
Percussion: Teddy Lytle
Stage Management: Kaitlin Nemeth
Graphic Design: Derek Rippe
Creatively Produced: Amanda Feldman
'From a show called "The Deepest Play ever: The Catharsis of Pathos," you'd expect overstatement, and that's what you get with Geoffrey Decas O'Donnell's musical satire...What you don't get is boredom...Talents thrives amid its tattered decadence."
-Andy Webster, New York Times
"...clever and very well performed...Every actor in this cast is a pleasure to watch...Lee Sunday Evans and Jordan Seavey have directed the piece well...This is an entirely different satire, and is a very interesting moment in the theatre."
-Bess Rowen, Huffington Post
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January 5 - 21
Extended February 9 - 18
SAMUEL AND ALASDAIR: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE ROBOT WAR
Text by Marc bovino and Joe Curnutte
Co-conceived & directed by Lila Neugebauer
Created by The Mad Ones |
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Broadcasting live from the Victory Theater in downtown Irkutsk, it’s the “At Home Field Guide,” brought to you by Soviet Free Radio Order. Today your hosts buck the chaos and mounting panic to bring you an American story of first love and first heartbreak, along with the musical stylings of Alexei ‘Tumbleweed’ Petrovya. Tune in, take heart–and be careful out there, friends.
In an alternate global history, the cold war was decided not by détente, not by nuclear holocaust, but by massive robot invasion. Among the survivors, a team of Russian radio hosts, warmed to a lost culture of 1950s Americana, broadcast a story of brothers’ love drawn straight from the American heartland.
Featuring Marc Bovino, Joe Curnutte, Michael Dalto and Stephanie Wright Thompson
Director: Lila Neugebauer
Set Design: Laura Jellinek
Costume Design: Jessica Pabst
Lighting Design: Mike Inwood
Sound Design: Stowe Nelson
"Fluidly directed by Lila Neugebauer, the show doesn’t burlesque its pop culture sources but honors them."
-Rachel Saltz, New York Times
"A masterful lo-fi goof on sci-fi doom, slyly combining postapocalyptic cold-war kitsch and cracker-barrel nostalgia with a beautiful, bleak, bare-bones love story....This is one of the most smoothly functional theatrical metaphors you’ll have seen in a while, a great, small play about decline and denial and the subtler, unspoken bonds of devotion. Without a crumb of optimism, Samuel & Alasdair is still a spot of warmth in a cold world."
-Scott Brown, New York Magazine
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December 1 - 17
POST OFFICE
Written by David Jenkins
Directed by Josie Whittlesey
Produced by Human Animals |
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In a small town in Illinois, a young mail carrier, his aging mentor and a disillusioned housewife struggle to define a new American Dream. A comedy that examines the meaning of work, and the fact that the mail never stops. It never stops. It never does.
Featuring Anney Giobbe, Eric Hoffmann, and David Gelles
Set Design: Alexis Distler
Lighting Design: Seth Reiser
Praise for middlemen, Human Animals' acclaimed debut:
"This is what it would be like if Sartre wrote for The Office!"
-Paul Menard, Time Out NY
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October 29 - November 20
TWO-MAN KIDNAPPING RULE
A play by Joseph Gallo
Directed by Robin A. Paterson |
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One evening in the lives of three 20-something suburban friends who find themselves at a crossroads. A bittersweet look at a contemporary male friendship in decline.
Performed by Curran Connor, Duane Cooper & Andy Lutz
Set Design: G. Warren Stiles
Lighting Design: Robin A. Paterson
Sound Design: Craig Lenti
Part of our new College Audience Initiative. Over the course of the run, TMKR will perform for nearly a thousand college students from the Tri-state area.
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October 7 - 23
TAKE WHAT IS YOURS
Script by Erica Fae & Jill A. Samuels
Directed by Jill A. Samuels |
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The (too) little-known (true) story of how American women fought for and won the right to vote. Inspired by and composed in the words of Alice Paul, the National Woman's Party, and documents of their time.
Performed by Erica Fae, Nathan Guisinger, Kiki Bowman, David Riley, and Taavo Smith
Video Design: Tal Yarden
Sound Design: Kristin Worrall
Costume Design: Alixandra Gage Englund
Lighting Design: Alison Brummer
Set Design Consultant: Deb O
Developed, in part, at IRT Theater, our new neighbor in the Archive Building.
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POST-PERFORMANCE DISCUSSIONS
Join us after the following performances with a special guest for a lively look at the
real-life people inspiring the production:
Wednesday, Oct. 12: NY State Assemblywoman Deborah Glick
Thursday, October 13: Mary Walton, author and biographer of A Woman's Crusade:
Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot.
Friday, October 14: Heather Roberson serves as Chair of the Board of the NY-based
grassroots political organization, ACT NOW, is co-author of graphic novel Macedonia:
What Does it Take to Stop a War? and of two collections of women's biographies, and is a graduate student of human rights at Columbia University. Heather will be discussing the modern-day human rights implications of Alice Paul's struggles and successes.
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